I think the LLM discourse is a little less “one weird trick” than Superdistribution, but yeah, I’m sure a lot of what people are saying today will look ridiculous in 30 years

Whenever I read books from this era, I’m a little jealous. It must have felt amazing to think software was on the cusp of being solved for good.

`git arboresce` seems more apropos

becoming-puppet

Agreed. There’s a reason the post focuses almost entirely on Martin.

I’ll check it out, thanks. In fairness, in the interviews I found it was Hunt who was talking about the importance of broken windows, so maybe that was his specific contribution.

You can pay for the ebook at leanpub.com/elementsofcl..., if you feel strongly about it. Glad you’re enjoying the book.

I fully believe that the Agile co-authors were all effective developers in their chosen domain. The problem is their incuriosity about that effectiveness. The more I read of the literature over the past few decades, the more I’m convinced they’ve done real harm to the industry.

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